From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luca Berra Subject: Re: Firewire RAID bootparameters? Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 13:14:48 +0100 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20031213121447.GA5975@percy.comedia.it> References: <20031213111947.99239.qmail@mail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031213111947.99239.qmail@mail.com> To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 06:19:47AM -0500, Christer Backstrom wrote: >Yes, this is new information for me. I never considered (or knew how >to) manipulate the initrd loading. I got two more mails saying about >the same thing, but they weren't cc:ed to the list. (Thanks Joe Pruett >and David Haring) This would enable me to put even my root-filesystem >on the firewire drive. Very nice. In my case, as I only keep my /home >on the raid1 mirror, it was even simpler. I looked into the initrd man >page, and found a reference to append "noinitrd" to lilo.conf, which >stops loading of modules by initrd altogether. The rc.sysinit will >then, in my case (Mandrake-9.2), load the modules in the right order. I >stiil wonder if the loading sequence should not be different when >loading compiled-in modules. Nowadays firewire and usb2 drives are fast >and commonplace, and an excellent way of securing the regular >harddrive. Especially on a laptop, where the regular drives are small >and singular. To load the raid subsystem before these systems can't be >right. I wonder if i t should not be changed? Anyways: Me happy. Thanks >all for the help! uhm, you should not need to modify the initrd scripts by hand to make it do what you need, (and mdk-9.2 initrd should not load raid modules if it does not need it to boot, but this i already fixed). having a correct scsi_hostadapter line in /etc/modules_conf should deal with loading the firewire module before, or you could use --preload argument. i don't have firewire hw to test this, and i'll never buy an usb drive if i can avoid it :-) would you be willing to test the alternative mkinitrd/initscripts/mdadm packages i built for mandrake cooker and report success/failure on your configuration? they are found at: http://www.comedia.it/~bluca/cooker/lvm2/ Regards, L. -- Luca Berra -- bluca@comedia.it Communication Media & Services S.r.l. /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN X AGAINST HTML MAIL / \